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  • noun A kind of nitroglycerin patented by Nobel, a Swedish engineer, in 1866.
  • noun In chem., a name proposed for the hypothetical radical of hydrazoic acid or azoimide, N3, or, if supposed to be isolated, (N3)2.

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